Yeah, all the so-called "art" in this thread was pretty bad. I didn't like looking at it. I'm just gonna keep trying to improve and if I ever get any better then I'll share my progress again. In the meantime I'll just leave this thread as is, without my previous posts.

To all my fellow members who commented in this thread and who offered me advice and support despite being a terrible artist: thank you.
You'll never know just how much I appreciate all you guys did for me.
Thank you.

Thanks for the advice and your thoughts about it all myconius! I'll definitely try more in regards to using shapes and outlines for the base of my characters. And I always enjoy hearing people's thoughts about art. So thanks for all that!

you're very very welcome! you'd be amazed at how helpful even just practice drawing basic blocks, cylinders and sphere at various angles can be.

Ok guys, itís honesty time.
As of right now this is more or less the best thing I can draw:
What do you guys think? What are your honest opinions?
Is it bad? Pretty bad? Really bad??
Does it look like Iíll ever become a decent artist? Of should I just give up?
What do I need to improve on (besides everything)?

From the looks of it, it seems like the area your favourite type of drawings are those of anime.

I'm not a certified artist myself but I think I can offer advice since I'm a huge fan of drawing anime/cartoons like you are.

Firstly, I'd recommend doodling alot, that might help. I personally use pens instead of pencils to achieve the cartoony/animated look, and my "practice" time is when I freely doodle in my scrap book. No focus on any technique, no worries, I just draw what I enjoy over and over again. I wish I could upload drawings of my doodles here, but I'm too embarrassed too since they're extremely random and a complete mess

The only thing I need is to have a clear image of what the character I draw looks like, and the best way for me to remember what a character looks like is by either watching them on screen alot or tracing their drawings and looking at those.

But thats just to achieve the level of drawings I do like in my art thread, compared to professionals here like Powder I am nothing

(btw where are your other drawings here? I could've sworn there were alot more in this thread before)

This little sketch looks a bit better in person, trust me. Iím just not very good at taking pictures. Or drawing witch hats. In hindsight, I really shouldíve looked up some sort of reference before trying to draw this. And that hat definitely needs some sort of brim. :/

Iíve been trying to get better at anatomy and angles and stuff, so I tried to apply that to an actual drawing. Here I attempted a top view.
Didnít turn out all that good, but I think Iím getting better. A bit.
Camera work still sucks though.

https://i.imgur.com/MSqDCYfm.jpg
Iíve been trying to get better at anatomy and angles and stuff, so I tried to apply that to an actual drawing. Here I attempted a top view.
Didnít turn out all that good, but I think Iím getting better. A bit.
Camera work still sucks though.